(idm) pole

From Philip Sherburne
Sent Fri, Jan 8th 1999, 19:44
>>STILL unable to get hold of CD1/LP1 here, but the track "Tanzen" is 
  >>             included on !K7's recent double CD set "Freestyle Files 
- Crackers 
    >>           Delight".  This is the only Pole I've heard so far - is 
it indicative of 
      >>         the rest of his work?  I was under the impression that 
it was quite 
        >>       dubby?  (which I cannot say of Tanzen).


Well, Irene, that depends, I suppose.  None of Pole's work is as dubby 
as Maurizio, say, or Maurizio's Rhythm & Sound projects.  I detect the 
dub influence in Pole as being something deep and submerged (true to 
form for the BC/CR folks, I really can't describe Pole without resorting 
to acquatic metaphor).  On some tracks it's no more than a shadow; on 
some the bassline is pretty much straight up dub, but without the rest 
of the instrumental/formal trappings (backbeat riddim, skank guitar 
scratch, etc.).

To the best of my knowledge, Pole has claimed not to have directly been 
influenced by dub, but rather to have picked it up secondhand through 
his BC/CR mates..  Given the heavy dub feel of his recent live show, 
I'll let you debate that.  Interestingly, Richie Hawtin made the same 
claim in a recent interview (soon to go up on Urban Sounds)--that he's 
never been a dub listener or enthusiast.  He laughs that some PR person 
wrote in a press release that he'd been influenced by King Tubby, or 
someone, who he'd never heard of at the time.  Frankly, I doubt it a bit 
(given how dubby Consumed/concept are), but if true, it's an interesting 
point:  it indicates how deeply entrenched dub structures are in 
techno... enough so that they've left their "home genre" and migrated to 
an entirely new space.

phil

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com